30.1. The Régie may refuse any application under section 30 where the applicant or any person mentioned in the second paragraph of the said section has, during the five years preceding the application, been convicted of an offence under the provisions of this Act or a regulation thereunder, the Act respecting offences relating to alcoholic beverages (chapter I-8.1) or the Act respecting interprovincial and international traffic in intoxicating liquors (Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, chapter I-3), unless a pardon was obtained.
1990, c. 21, s. 3; 1991, c. 51, s. 31.